Investigation Protection

Not from the ghosts or spirits, but from animals or worse yet locals coming in to screw with you or try and take your equipment?? Especially in isolated areas. I was thinking mace might do the trick. Have each team member carry some. Just a thought.

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer